Better End of Life Project Principal investigators: Katherine E Sleeman. Understanding experiences of dying, death, and bereavement in the UK, and compelling local and national policy-makers to act to improve people’s experiences. Project status: Ongoing
Dyadic Psychosocial Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer & their Informal Caregivers Principal investigators: Katherine Bristowe, Richard Harding. The DIAdIC project aims to develop and evaluate two educational psychosocial interventions to support people living with cancer and their family caregivers. Project status: Ongoing
Understanding Factors that Influence End-of-Life Decisions in Older Adults with Dementia Principal investigators: Elizabeth Dzeng. Investigating the systems-level factors that contribute to burdensome end-of-life care in older adults with dementia. Project status: Ongoing
Understanding Factors that Influence Why People with Dementia Make Transitions from the Community to Acute Hospital Care Settings in the Last Months of Life Principal investigators: Katherine E Sleeman. Utilising routine data to understand why people with dementia move between healthcare settings in the months preceding their death. Project status: Ongoing
Understanding the Impact of Community Health & Social Care Services on Hospitalisation in the Last Months of Life Principal investigators: Katherine E Sleeman. Examining primary and community health care and hospital admissions among people with cancer in their last 90 days of life. Project status: Ongoing
Understanding the Social Determinants of Outcomes Important to Older People Towards the End of Life Principal investigators: Joanna Davies. Secondary analysis of observational data on exposures, mediators, patterns of care and symptom profiles. Project status: Ongoing
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31 August 2022 Evidence-based guidance developed to support LGBT+ inclusivity in health and social care Researchers from King’s College London, funded by the NIHR, have developed practical guidance to aid…
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30 August 2021 Cicely Saunders Institute's Triennial Report published The report takes an in-depth look at Palliative Care and Rehabilitation between 2017-2020.